- Yemen: Houthis launch missiles at Saudi Arabia after strikes on Sanaa airport
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Yemen’s Houthis said they launched missiles at Abha airport in south-western Saudi Arabia on Monday in response to air strikes on Sanaa’s airport that they blamed on the kingdom. The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, which backs the country’s internationally-recognised [Saudi puppet regime], said its air defences ‘dealt with’ the missiles and no casualties were reported. The Houthis, who control north-western Yemen and are backed by Iran, earlier accused Saudi Arabia of ‘blatant aggression’, saying it had struck the runway of Sanaa’s airport. The strike was claimed by Yemen’s [Saudi puppet regime], which said it wanted to prevent an Iranian plane from landing.” (07/14/26)
- US Regime Approves Launch of Mirror Satellite That Can Reflect Sunlight and Illuminate the Earth at Night
Source: Wired
“On July 9, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized Reflect Orbital to build, launch, and operate a mirror satellite in low Earth orbit. The experimental satellite, named Eärendil-1, would be capable of reflecting sunlight onto specific locations on Earth during the night. The project has long drawn criticism from astronomers and environmental advocates. … Equipped with an 18-meter reflector, Eärendil-1 could illuminate areas 5 to 6 kilometers in diameter for brief periods (the mirror satellite’s name is a reference to a character from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series). The authorization allows the company to deploy the test satellite at an altitude of about 625 kilometers. Its primary objective is to evaluate the technical feasibility of its ultrathin, highly reflective, film-based reflector.” (07/24/26)
- Spain: Sanchez’s Brother Convicted in Nepotism Case
Source: US News & World Report
“David Sanchez, the brother of Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, was convicted of administrative misconduct on Tuesday and banned from holding public office for nine years over his appointment to a cultural post by the provincial government of Badajoz in 2017. The ruling deals a fresh political blow to the Socialist premier, whose government and inner circle have faced corruption investigations and scandals over the past two years. Last month, a former close aide to Sanchez was sentenced to 24 years in prison in a separate corruption case. David Sanchez was accused of benefiting from an appointment tailored to him because of his family connection to the prime minister, who when the job was awarded had just been elected leader of the Socialists when they were still in opposition. The prime minister has dismissed the case as part of a politically motivated campaign driven by the far right.” (07/14/26)
- ID: Voters will decide whether to reinstate abortion access
Source: Seattle Times
“Idaho voters will decide in November whether to restore widespread access to abortion after years of some of the country’s most restrictive abortion laws, election officials confirmed Monday. Idahoans United for Women and Families said Monday that a ballot initiative it created to carve out reproductive healthcare protections, including the right to abortion, met criteria to be on voters’ ballots for the general election on Nov. 3. Voters will see the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, which says it will establish ‘a right to make private reproductive healthcare decisions’ on their ballots. The proposal would prevent the state from prohibiting or interfering with reproductive healthcare, including contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage management and childbirth care.” (07/14/26)
- WHO: DR Congo Ebola outbreak’s true scale could be four times higher than official toll
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo could be four times bigger than official figures suggest. According to the DR Congo’s latest official figures, the haemorrhagic fever has infected more than 1,960 people and killed over 700 since it was detected two months ago. But WHO emergencies director Chikwe Ihekweazu told reporters in Geneva that its modelling indicated ‘the scale of the outbreak is at least two to four times the number of cases that we have found’. According to official numbers, this is already one of the largest Ebola outbreaks recorded, with the virus spreading faster than ever seen before.” (07/14/26)
- Poll: Confidence in higher education slips after brief recovery
Source: Fox News
“Public confidence in American higher education has taken a fresh hit, erasing a brief period of recovery, as concerns over campus politics and financial value intensify, according to a new Gallup poll obtained by Fox News Digital. The latest data reveals that just 38% of U.S. adults maintain a ‘great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence in higher education. The figure represents a noticeable drop from last year, when trust in the sector experienced a modest uptick to 42%. … The current 38% confidence mark underscores a steep, long-term decline from 2015, when 57% of Americans expressed solid trust in higher education. Significant drops followed in 2018 and 2023.” (07/14/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/confidence-higher-education-slips-brief-recovery-gallup-poll-finds
- US regime moves $288 million in stolen bitcoin, ether to Coinbase Prime
Source: CoinDesk
“The U.S. government just staged its [stolen] crypto for an exchange, and it took an extra hop to get there. Wallets tied to the government moved about $288 million in [stolen] bitcoin and ether onto Coinbase Prime over roughly half a day on Monday, blockchain data from Arkham shows. The ether went direct, while the bitcoin took a detour through intermediary wallets first. The movements are despite an executive order in March 2025 by President Donald Trump, which designated [stolen] bitcoin for the country’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and said it should not be sold.” (07/14/26)
- Social Security Is Not a Generational Contract
Source: The Daily Economy
by Ethan Nevid“How can one sign a contract before birth? That question can’t be answered by President Bill Clinton, who said ‘we mustn’t break the solemn compact between generations,’ in a 1998 address on Social Security. Such a speech constructs Social Security as a contractual mandate in need of protection rather than an insurance and redistribution program. Grand national ‘contracts’ should face significant scrutiny, as they borrow the moral force of a contract without the requirements that define one. … Legally, the four requirements of a contract are offer, consideration, acceptance, and an intention to create legal relations. A person not yet born cannot be offered a contract, consider it in any manner or ask for compensation, accept it in any way, or intend legal relations. By any measure, Social Security cannot be a legal contract.” (07/14/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/social-security-is-not-a-generational-contract/
- Rubio’s Anti-ICC Campaign is an Anti-“Sovereignty” Project
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“Rubio’s problem with the ICC isn’t that it can ‘override the courts and constitutions of the U.S. and other sovereign states.’ It’s that when an American allegedly commits a relevant crime on the soil of an ICC member state, the ICC, rather than US courts, adjudicates the matter. To put it a different way, Rubio’s demand of ICC member states is ‘global sovereignty for the US, no sovereignty for anyone else.'” (07/14/26)
- War: The Dreaded Enemy of Liberty
Source: EconLog
by Christopher Coyne & Abigail R Hall“One of the defining features of war is the centralization of state power. War and foreign intervention require the use of resources and the ability to make choices about how to use them. As national governments are responsible for planning, implementing, and overseeing war and other foreign intervention, war necessarily draws peripheral political units (e.g., state and local authorities) toward the political center. … This bureaucratization of life, the drawing of peripheral units of government toward the political center, effectively erodes the pluralism of democratic governments. Instead of working to provide a check or counterbalance to the central government, peripheral political units become aligned with the goals of the central government.” (07/14/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/war-the-dreaded-enemy-of-liberty
- The Inconvenient Jew Is One of Zionism’s Biggest Problems
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jason Jones“Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter recently offered what he apparently believed was a devastating answer to those decrying the genocide in Gaza. ‘Jews do not use children’s blood for rituals,’ Leiter said. ‘Jews do not poison wells. And Jews do not starve populations or commit genocide.’ The smear in this common Zionist talking point is obvious: Those who accuse the Israeli government belong in the same moral category as those who spread medieval blood libels against innocent Jews. To say the regime of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has committed genocide is not merely to criticize a government, an army, or a political ideology. It is to accuse ‘the Jews.’ But there is a growing problem for Zionism and its favorite smear: the moral indignation of Jews.” (07/14/26)
- A Horrific System of Death and Destruction of Liberty
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“Let’s give credit where credit is due: The Trump administration, including ICE and the Border Patrol, is showing what needs to be done to ‘secure the border.’ For decades, advocates of America’s socialist system of immigration controls have assumed that it’s possible to have a gentle and benign immigration-control system, one that not only works to keep out illegal immigrants but also treats people with kindness and respect. Among my favorite statist mantras is, ‘We just need comprehensive immigration reform to fix America’s broken immigration system.’ That has always been a pipe dream.” (07/14/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/07/14/a-horrific-system-of-death-and-destruction-of-liberty/
- The Politics of Exclusion
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman“A new Israeli party aimed at finding common ground may only make coalition-building harder.” (07/14/26)
- Socialists to Seize Power?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“Evan Barker isn’t surprised. ‘The democratic socialist surge of the past several weeks has stunned the nation,’ this former Democratic operative wrote last week. ‘From left to right and everywhere in between, people are asking: How did we get here? What does it mean? And will the Democratic Party survive it? The prevailing reaction has been shock.’ She’s not shocked, though, because for half a decade she had worked for ‘a slew of progressive candidates’ teaching ‘DSA-aligned staffers how to build a money machine for the left; coached progressive politicians on how to speak to donors; and collaborated with billionaires to create a robust fundraising network.'” (07/14/26)
- Russell Kirk’s American Conservatism
Source: Law & Liberty
by Allen Mendenhall“What better way to observe the semiquincentennial of the American founding than in the company of Russell Kirk? A true gentleman, Kirk spent his career insisting that the founding was neither a revolution in the modern sense nor an experiment in abstraction but, rather, a carefully cultivated inheritance, rooted in centuries of English common law, Christian moral order, and classical wisdom. A new collection of his essays offers a corrective to the sentimentality and ideological appropriation that too often attend our national anniversaries.” (07/14/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/russell-kirks-american-conservatism/
- Lindsey Graham Embodied the Republican Party’s Authoritarian Drift
Source: The New Republic
by Alex Shephard“Over more than 30 years in Congress, the South Carolina senator reflected the GOP’s cynicism, warmongering, and abandonment of democratic principles.” (07/14/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/213022/lindsey-graham-republican-party-authoritarian-drift
- “Government Totally Annihilated”: How Americans Governed Themselves as British Rule Crumbled
Source: Reason
by Jesse Walker“America in the mid-1770s was a jumble of spontaneous formations amid the ruins of an empire.” (07/14/26)
https://reason.com/2026/07/14/government-totally-annihilated/
- NYCHA’s $465,000-a-year plumber is just a taste of its massive dysfunction
Source: New York Post
by John Ketcham“Want to make banker money without stepping foot on Wall Street? Try plumbing for the New York City Housing Authority. From July 2024 through June 2025, NYCHA plumber supervisor Jakub Markowski earned $465,000, including $332,000 for nearly 2,600 hours in overtime — more than the mayor and City Council speaker make combined. While he collected these checks, Markowski also operated two private plumbing companies. The Buildings Department is now investigating him. As the city’s ascendant socialist left pushes for more housing in public or nonprofit hands, NYCHA’s history presents a sordid tale of dysfunction and corruption, with Markowski the latest apparent example.” (07/14/26)
- The Lockdown Disaster Must Not Be Forgiven
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Ian Miller“[L]ockdowns and the associated mask mandates, vaccine passports, and school closures continued in some places for several years. The ramifications of those wretched policies will be quite literally endless. It’s not an exaggeration to say that lockdowns, our policies, and responses have quite literally changed the course of world history. One would think that there would definitely be a concerted effort to understand whether such policies were effective or not. Whether approaching respiratory viruses with authoritarian crackdowns on businesses and schools was necessary to save lives. Yet six years later, there’s unfortunately very little interest in examining those questions. And when you understand the data from Sweden, you will see exactly why.” (07/14/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-lockdown-disaster-must-not-be-forgiven/
- Trump Supporters Are Pathetic Cucks, And Other Notes
Source: Caitlin Johnstone
by Caitlin Johnstone“Being a Trump supporter in 2026 is like staying best friends with a man who stole your wife. He’s deceived and betrayed you at every turn and you’re still swinging from his nuts? That’s cucky, humiliating behavior.” (07/14/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/07/14/trump-supporters-are-pathetic-cucks-and-other-notes/
- FREEDOM
Source: Cobden Centre
by Philip Vande Elst“According to the latest detailed annual survey (2026) of global freedom produced in New York by Freedom House, only 21% of the world’s population live in ‘free countries’ and global freedom has declined for the 20th consecutive year. Add to these grim statistics the huge potential threat to personal privacy and liberty posed by current advances in surveillance technology, and the desire of governments to use them, and no room for complacency should remain in anyone’s mind about the fragility of the world’s few genuinely free societies.” (07/14/26)
- Price Fixing at the Pump
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Ninos P Malek“Is it the legitimate role of government to pressure or threaten private businesses over the prices they voluntarily charge for their own property? Most economists would begin with the basic function of prices. Market prices are not arbitrary numbers; they communicate information about scarcity, demand, costs, and alternatives. When prices are allowed to adjust freely, they coordinate millions of decisions made by consumers, producers, wholesalers, and retailers. That is why virtually every textbook on the principles of economics warns that government-imposed price controls—whether they are ceilings intended to ‘protect consumers’ or floors designed to guarantee sellers a ‘fair price’—produce unintended consequences.” (07/14/26)
- Pikachu’s Pokémon Price Information
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Kevin Van Elswyk“Pikachu is a yellow mouse and the internationally-recognized mascot of the Pokémon Franchise. Pokémon’s beginning was a game and disconnected (‘Pocket Monsters’) playing cards decades ago. Over time, it has spawned a TV series, a monopoly game, and a worldwide card collection fever. The tangible cards are now an ersatz currency to reward chore completion, trade for other cards, cash, and bitcoin. Bartering lives, and the card collection fever illustrates Austrian economics.” (07/14/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/pikachus-pokemon-price-information
- Democrats’ affordability scam collapses in states they actually run
Source: Fox News
by Liz Peek“Democrats are lying to voters, claiming to be the party that can deliver ‘affordability.’ Nothing could be farther from the truth. … Democrat-run cities and states are, with few exceptions, the most expensive in the nation. The reasons include pro-labor rules that drive up wages and costs, regulatory overreach that creates hurdles and delays, energy policies that inflate electricity and gasoline bills, and reckless spending, which leads to high taxes. High taxes, another Democrat specialty, inflate the price of everything as they are passed along to the consumer.” (07/14/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-democrats-affordability-scam-collapses-states-they-run
- On the Manchester model
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Miles Saltiel“Burnham’s Manchester model is a game of bait and switch. It uses funds obtained from the Public Works Loan Board, an arm of the Treasury, which explicitly declines to look at the uses to which its money is put. Manchester loans these funds on to local projects, also free of arm’s-length scrutiny, in effect using the national credit rating for local projects. This brings to mind other public borrowers who believed that big Daddy would keep them out of trouble (bankers call malarkey of this kind ‘moral hazard’) leading to, eg, Argentine defaults, where provincial profligacy hides behind central guarantees. The Manchester model is not yet a big thing in the UK, but Burnham gives the impression that he believes he’s found the secret sauce.” (07/14/26)
- Cory Doctorow Is Making Peace with AI
Source: Washington Monthly
by Anita Jain“Less than four years after ChatGPT’s debut, we are nowhere near understanding the role AI will play in our lives. Will it be as transformative as the internet? Will it cause mass unemployment? Will the next generation forfeit its capacity to think to AI models? Will we all soon be using AI agents to book our hotels and flights? How to scythe through the bramble? Cory Doctorow, a science fiction novelist and one of our keenest observers of technology, is out with The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It’s Too Late, a companionable guide to the subject.” (07/14/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/14/cory-doctorow-is-making-peace-with-ai/
- Trump Watch, 07/14/26
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Left-Right Silence on Venezuela.” (07/14/26)
- TAC Right Now, 07/14/26
Source: The American Conservative
“TAC Executive Director Curt Mills and Correspondent Harrison Berger speak with Amir Handjani, a partner at Karv Global and board member of The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft who has years of experience in the petroleum industry. They discuss the resumption of hostilities in the Iran War, the status and future of the Strait of Hormuz, and the prospects for ending the conflict.” (07/14/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/tac-right-now-iran-war-restarts/
- The Bryan Hyde Show. 07/14/26
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It’s my weekly visit with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. We talk about wars and rumors of war-mongers, flock cameras and the importance of choosing truth over party.” (07/14/26)
- The Big Interview Podcast, 07/14/26
Source: Wired
“This Luddite Puppet Hopes You’re Not Reading This on Your Smartphone.” (07/14/26)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-summer-of-ludd-gowanus/
- Rising, 07/14/26
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on a viral photo of Denver Democratic Socialists wearing masks at their recent meeting celebrating Melat Kiros’ victory in the state’s Democratic primary.” (07/14/26)
- Show-Me Institute Podcast, 07/14/26
Source: Show-Me Institute
“A U.S. Attorney’s Perspective on Criminal Justice Reform with Thomas C. Albus.” (07/14/26)
- Capital Record, episode 311
Source: National Review
“That Big, Bad, Evil GDP Thing.” (07/14/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/that-big-bad-evil-gdp-thing/
- The Good Fight, 07/14/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“John Harpham on the Intellectual Origins of American Slavery.” (07/14/26)